This first academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa's mineral revolution. It includes the first analysis of the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful mining companies ever to have been established in Africa. Based on new documentary sources, notably in the Standard Bank Archive, the Rothschild archive and the Philipson Stow Papers, it includes a new interpretation of the Black Flag revolt and of the celebrated amalgamation struggle between Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato for the control of the diamond-mining industry.
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Based on new documentary sources, this history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of South Africa's mineral revolution and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful African mining companies.
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In 1867 the first diamonds were discovered in South Africa somewhere in the vicinity of the Orange River and traded in Hopetown in the northern Cape some 600 miles from Cape Town. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poorer mines, liquor laws commission, fallen reef, pumping contract, closed compound system, amalgamation struggle, mining board, illicit stones, illicit diamond buying, circulating portions, diamond laws, diamond theft, black diggers, closed compounds, white diggers, diamond shares, mining capitalists, depositing floors, convict station, detective department, tenants bill, diamond mining industry, diamond fields, mine labourers, diamond magnate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kimberley Central, Griqualand West, Standard Bank, Orange Free State, Cape Town, Detective Department, Jules Porges, Port Elizabeth, South Sotho, South Africa, Exploration Company, West End, Cape Colony, Diamond News, Diamond Trade Act, Governor Southey, Protection Association, Baring Gould, Barney Barnato, Cecil Rhodes, Committee of Public Safety, Mining Boards, Black Flag Revolt, Henry Tucker, Moderate Party New!
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In 1867 the first diamonds were discovered in South Africa somewhere in the vicinity of the Orange River and traded in Hopetown in the northern Cape some 600 miles from Cape Town. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poorer mines, liquor laws commission, fallen reef, pumping contract, closed compound system, amalgamation struggle, mining board, illicit stones, illicit diamond buying, circulating portions, diamond laws, diamond theft, black diggers, closed compounds, white diggers, diamond shares, mining capitalists, depositing floors, convict station, detective department, tenants bill, diamond mining industry, diamond fields, mine labourers, diamond magnate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kimberley Central, Griqualand West, Standard Bank, Orange Free State, Cape Town, Detective Department, Jules Porges, Port Elizabeth, South Sotho, South Africa, Exploration Company, West End, Cape Colony, Diamond News, Diamond Trade Act, Governor Southey, Protection Association, Baring Gould, Barney Barnato, Cecil Rhodes, Committee of Public Safety, Mining Boards, Black Flag Revolt, Henry Tucker, Moderate Party New!
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- The Good Hope (Methuen Modern Plays) by Herman Heijermans on 6 pages
- Economy and Society in Pre-industrial South Africa by Anthony Atmore on 5 pages
- Black Mineworkers in Central Africa by Charles Perrings in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ernest Oppenheimer and the economic development of Southern Africa (European business) by T. E Gregory in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cecil Rhodes by John E. Flint in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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